Improvement in mules for spinning



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JOHN BURNS SMITH, OF CHES, NEW YORK.

Lette/rs Patent No. 92,382, dated July 6, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN MU'LES- I'oR SPINNING.

*Hr-Q- T0 ZZ whom @t mail 00110072 r ready to descend and bear more heavily upon the yarn, Beit known that I, JOHN BURNS SMITH, of Oothe under faller u drops the rod n and slackens the hoes, in the county of Albany, and State of New tension between the parts C and N. York, have invented a new and useful Improvement At the same time the two fallers B u may be so ad# in Self-Acting Mules; and I do hereby declare that justed to each other, by means of springs,'weights, or the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription of otherwise, that the faller u will not aliow too much the construction and operation of the same, reference tension, but will yield only when a greater than orbeing had to the accompanying drawings, making a dinary strain comes upon the yarn, and only to that part of this specification, in which my invention is degree necessary to save the yarn. represented by a longitudinal vertical section of the On the other hand, too little tension at'this point, mule, only those parts being shown which are necesin the process of building the cop, renders the upper sary to illustrate the nature of my improvements. end of the cop soft, and impairs its usefulness for weft This invention consists in certain improvements in or filling. Ithe operating-mechanism ofself-acting spinning-mules, I therefore provide, in the. outer fork of the faller hand-spinning mules, twinel-S, jacks, billies, and B, a'series of holes, ev e e, each adapted to receive the other spinning and twisting-machines, whereby the rod B. j

machine is caused to hold the yarn -in a better state It is evident that the higher up the rod Bl is adot tension while winding ou the spindle, and, on the j usted, the less will be the length ofthe bight Bl u 1?2 other hand, the yarn is relieved from undue strain at of the yarn, and the less control will the under faller the time that the fuller commences its descending have over the tension.

movement. If, for example, the rods -Bl B2 were so adjusted In the dlawillgthat when the yarnwas winding upon the uppcrnd (l represents the cop. of the cop, it would extend in a straight line from the P, the mule spindle. cop to the rollers N N, as shown in red at R; then N N, thedelivering-rollers. the machine would operate as if there were no under S, the aller-shaft. or counter faller, and only one faller wire, B2. F, the vibratory-rod, which operates all the under Between the adjustments of the yarn, as shown by fallers. the red and dark lines, there may be any desired va- B, one of the building falle1s,pivotedon the shaft riety of adjustment, so that the tension of the yarn S, and having its opposite end bifurcated. can be perfectly regulated and controlled at all points n, one of the under or counter fallers, pivoted of the faller movement. either on the shaft S, or on a hub or collar, a, vof the It is obvious that by the employment of the forked adjacent building-faber, and rocked by the action of building-faber, and the use of the two rods B B,

rod F- around which the yarn is adjusted, as shown in the u', the fuller-wire, holding the yarn in tension. drawing, the strain upon the yarn between the faller y y, the spun yarn, which the machine is winding and the rollers N, is considerably diminished.

upon the 00D- Iu practical operation this is found to save breaking B* Bf, the tension wires of the buililing-iller, operthe yarn to a very material extent. ating in conjunction with the parts C 5u N, to hold The under fallers being mounted loosely on shaft S, the yarn at the proper tension during the building of and the series being connected together by the vibratthe cop. 4 ing rod F, the two fallers and the rods Bl B2 u', have All who are familiar with the art arc well aware a concentric movement with each other. that the function of the building-Edler is to apply the Having thus described my invention, yarn to the cop insuch a manner that the latter shall -What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letbe properly formed, the building-taller being simply a ters Patent, iscurved guiding-anni, which moves up and down, holdl. The combination of the bifurcated faller B with ille* the YM D 'S'GULL the vibrating faller u, and the rods n B1 B2, all con- As thus constructed, a great ditliculty has heretostructed to operate in connection with each other, subfore been experienced from the fact that the greatest stantially as and for the purposes specified. tension of the yarn being between the end of the faller 2. lhe series of adjusting holes c c c, when arranged and the cop, when the taller reached the upper limit in the outer fork of the building-taller B, in connection ot' its movement and began to return,vit suddenly inwith the wires Bx yu B2, substantially as and for the creased the tension to such a degree as to frequently purposes set forth.

break the yarn. JOHN BURNS SMITH.

A. glance at the drawing will show that this dii- Vitnesses: culty is completely obviated by my invention, since in MOSES M. KAY,

my machine, at the moment that the building-fader is GEORGE MAINE. 

